Grouping Canberra suburbs (gammaX[location])

Overall we can group locations and other attributes into different spatial areas. For mapping many projects the exact location is not know or is not needed/wanted for a range of obvious reasons. This set of functions takes the location information from each of the datasets and creates a uniform location entry that aligns with the desired spatial scale.

Final selection figure

This constitutes one of the challenges that is unique to a small collection of areas which are small and surrounded by much larger states and districts.

Levels of possible grouping

The raw data has the following location variables of interest:

Unique set of points

Rows: 225
Columns: 12
$ Status            <chr> "", "New", "New", "New", "New", "New", "", "", "", "~
$ Exposure.Location <chr> "Woolworths Charnwood", "Priceline Pharmacy Gungahli~
$ Street            <chr> "25-30 Charnwood Place", "126/43 Hibberson Street", ~
$ Suburb            <chr> "Charnwood", "Gungahlin", "Gungahlin", "Gungahlin", ~
$ Date              <chr> "30/08/2021 - Monday", "30/08/2021 - Monday", "30/08~
$ Arrival.Time      <chr> "7:00am", "12:20pm", "12:40pm", "12:50pm", "1:25pm",~
$ Departure.Time    <chr> "8:20am", "1:20pm", "1:30pm", "2:00pm", "1:38pm", "2~
$ Contact           <chr> "Casual", "Casual", "Monitor", "Casual", "Casual", "~
$ lat               <dbl> -35.20453, -35.18568, -35.18535, -35.18664, -35.3444~
$ lon               <dbl> 149.0329, 149.1367, 149.1362, 149.1368, 149.0873, 14~
$ doubles           <chr> "", "", "<strong/>!Location has more than<br> one en~
$ moved             <lgl> FALSE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, TRUE, FALSE, FALSE,~

Manual grouping into four general areas….

Here I have created for groups: North Canberra, Central Canberra,…..

Suburb

This is the grouping variable for location provided by the ACT website. This information is helpful but needs to be filtered to check that every Suburb matches a Postcode?

Postcode

There are xx postcodes in the ACT. we can associate each one of these with a suburb?

ACT Census data

From ABS package

This package allows aspects of this data to be linked with census and other data resources associated with this level of geo-spatial identification.

LGA_2016 equates to total of ACT

All current locations in cases

SA3 statistical Areas

SA2 statistical Areas

Overall we can group locations and other attributes into different spatial areas. Here I have created for groups: North Canberra, Central Canberra,…Manual grouping into four general areas….